First generation Mexican

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Im just curious where I should apply. I am a first generation Mexican whose parents never went to college. I have an unweighted average of 93.74 and a weighted average of 95.87. I only took the act one time and I got a 28. SAT I didn't do very well, I got a 1700.</p>

<p>Act
English 24
Math 27
Reading 30
Science 30</p>

<p>Freshman year courses
English regents
Biology regents
Geometry regents
Spanish
Global history regents </p>

<p>Sophomore year
Global honors
English honors
Chemistry regents
Spanish
Algebra trig 2 regents
College business law</p>

<p>Junior year
AP English
AP US history
Pre calculus regents
Physics Regents
College Accounting
Spanish honors </p>

<p>Senior year
AP living environmental
AP English
AP Economics
calculus honors
Spanish honors
College Public affairs </p>

<p>I got 4s on both AP English and US history </p>

<p>EC
4 year varsity lacrosse player
4x scholar athlete award</p>

<p>4 year varsity football player
4x scholar athlete award</p>

<p>Taikwondo-purple belt</p>

<p>Community service -silver cord
Over 200hours</p>

<p>National Honors society
Business Honors Society
national honors society of foreign language </p>

<p>summer work
Internship at a law firm for two months</p>

<p>internship at computer design business in Mexico -one month</p>

<p>College recommendation letters
Chemistry teacher
US history teacher
Lawyer who I worked for</p>

<p>I'm just curious where I can go. Some schools that I have interest are;
Boston college
Binghamton
William and Mary
U of Wisconsin-Madison
Columbia (dream)
UC Berkeley
U of Delaware
I want to go ivy but I don't think my grades are up to par. Any suggestions would help</p>

<p>To add, I come from a very Jewish highschool. Being a Mexican I am some what sort of looked upon as lower in this community because I don't have the money like they do. I'm just wondering if I should write my college essay on the racism I faced and how it led me to prove people wrong.</p>

<p>This might be unorganized a bit. I was doing this on a phone sorry.</p>

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<p>Columbia: High reach (aim for 32+/2150+ for reachability)
Boston College: High match
Binghamton: Low match/Match
W&M: High match
UWI: Match
Berkeley: Reach (high match if you can pay full-freight)
UDel: Safety</p>

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<p>I don’t know what this means but I do actually have duel citizenship, but does that have any effect? Also what are chance of UVA?</p>

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<p>UVA: High match</p>

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<p>Columbia: out of reach (unless you get a much higher SAT/ACT score)
Berkeley: high reach
BC: low reach
W&M: low reach
Wisconsin: high match
Binghamton: high match
UDel: safety</p>

<p>Good luck! :)</p>

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<p>If you need financial aid, cross out W&M, Berkeley, and Wisconsin since they don’t offeR FA to out of state students.
Binghamton (and other SUNYs) = safeties, apply to Geneseo also.
What do you want to study?
Some schools try to recruit first generation students and Hispanics, so if you could retake that ACT and score a 30 you’d have a shot at a LOT more luck with the top LACs and universities.
You can apply to Columbia since it’s your dream school and why not add another TOP 20 national university if you want to, keeping in mind your odds are about 1 in 10, so 9/10 you won’t get in and you need to have various levels of schools between the SUNYs (safeties) and super reach schools like Columbia.
To increase your odds of admission at a prestigious school with good financial aid, though, you should apply 500+ miles from home. I’d suggest Emory, Washington University in St Louis, Wake Forest plus schools such as Grinnell (reach), Carleton (reach), Davidson (reach), Macalester, U of Richmond, Kenyon, or Whitman.
(Duke, Vanderbilt, Carleton, Davidson… are reaches like Columbia but you may get a boost from being both first gen and Latino plus being from far away… even if your state isn’t underreprewsented so you should investigate which schools admitted the fewest students from NY.) Send in “request information” and see what they reply.
The fact you’ve been a student athlete in Lacrosse could help at places where Lacrosse is big (while it’s DIII and you wouldn’t get an athletic scholarship, it might help you get in): Dickinson, Tufts, Middlebury, Wesleyan, Connecticut College, Bowdoin.</p>

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<p>Thank you, I need to look around. I love UVA and BC but I also like Binghamton</p>